The star and her entourage walked quickly from the restaurant to a fleet of waiting cars without stopping to sign autographs.

Are you a word wiz?

From what language do you think English borrowed "entourage"?

A. Arabic

B. Japanese

C. French

D. Russian

If you chose C, très bien! "Entourage" arose from the French adjective "entour," meaning "surrounding" or "within a circuit." It is a combination of the French prefix "en-," meaning "in," and the French root word "tour," meaning "circuit." In the 1800s when "entourage" first appeared in English, it was used to refer to people surrounding someone, or to the physical environment. Today "entourage" is often used to refer to people who are helping or attending to someone, but the physical surroundings sense is not as common.